Homeland Security Warns Vermont Same-Sex Couple: You're Not Legally Married<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThis is why we need same-sex marriage rights on the federal level. This is just disgraceful. You'd think with all those dangerous medical marijuana dealers Homeland Security is hunting down, they'd be…\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Well, in some ways it should be, or a personal religious commitment, or something like that. But here's a perfect case of how not having government recognition of a marriage leads to consequences that (yes, I'm looking at you, Rick Santorum) all the fancy, expensive, lawyerfied legal documents in the world won't smooth over. #ddtb … Continue reading “Marriage is not just about a private legal contract”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,25,9,371],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-26768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-gay-stuff","category-politics-law","category-war-on-drugs","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25770,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/27\/eek-paganism-is-rising-hide-the-children-ma.html","url_meta":{"origin":26768,"position":0},"title":"Eek! 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